Right on schedule, just a few hours after its public release, the iPhone 5S has been torn down, its exciting new innards — including the fingerprint scanner — exposed for all the world to see. As always, the iPhone 5S is a marvel of engineering, packing the latest hardware into one of the lightest and thinnest smartphones on the market. The teardown reveals the technology behind the new fingerprint scanner, the engineering ingenuity to squeeze in a larger battery — and curiously, there’s no M7 coprocessor to be found.

The new Apple iPhone 5S is out, reviewed — and fabulous. This could easily be the breakout phone to buy this fall. Unlike the iPhone 5 launch, which was badly overshadowed by the Apple Maps debacle, the iPhone 5S has no such problems. General coverage of everything from the new camera to iOS 7 is positive. The issues that people were concerned might be gimmicky, like the new fingerprint sensor, are receiving high praise.

Samsung has announced that its “next smartphones” will also have “64-bit processing functionality.” This presumably means that the Galaxy S5, or perhaps the phone after that, will have a 64-bit SoC — and, perhaps more importantly, that Android will make the leap to 64-bit, too. Whether smartphones actually gain anything from 64-bit processing, or whether this is merely a 3D TV-like marketing ploy, is another question entirely.

Tomorrow afternoon, Apple is hosting its yearly iPhone event where we’re likely going to see the official unveiling of the iPhone 5S, the iPhone 5C, and take another in-depth look at iOS 7. There have also been rumors that Apple could announce a MacBook refresh, as well as some new iPads. What should you expect tomorrow?

Rumors surrounding the launch of the A7 next month is making the whole internet begin to froth at the mouth. Not only are we supposedly going to see a substantial CPU speed boost over the A6’s processor, but sources indicate that Apple is finally making the switch to a 64-bit CPU in its line of mobile devices. While it likely won’t make much of a difference right off the bat, it does set the stage for faster apps and more memory down the road.

After last week’s unveiling of iOS 7, rumors about the next iPhone have started to really heat up. A photo has leaked from a Japanese electronics site today, and it’s supposedly the logic board slated for use in the next iPhone. Unsurprisingly, it looks a lot like the internals of the iPhone 5 with merely a few minor differences. Simply put, this adds credence to the idea that the next iPhone won’t be a complete redesign.

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